Re: [CR]Re: So-called death stems; where exactly.....

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:34:19 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: So-called death stems; where exactly.....
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Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> I've never had one fail, although I'm sure some do, as do some
> Cinelli and TTT stems. It would seem SOMEONE must have experienced
> such a failure, or perhaps heard rumors of such failures, else where
> did this "death stem" thing come from? Unless the Cinelli and TTT
> marketing boys just manufactured the whole thing to trash the
> competition.

The only stem that I've had fail was a TTT, and it failed at the bar clamp.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA